Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Surrender Surrender Bruce Bawer There is a new form of jihad to fear--one that threatens the very values on which our freedom restsBruce Bawer's While Europe Slept sounded the alarm about the dire impact of Muslim immigration in Eu… OL14991990W
Blood Work Blood Work Holly Tucker A sharp-eyed expose of the deadly politics, murderous plots, and cutthroat rivalries behind the first blood transfusions in seventeenth-century Europe. OL16011162W
Political allegiance after European integration Political allegiance after European integration Jonathan White "How should political community be seen in the context of European integration? This book combines a theoretical treatment of political allegiance with a study of ordinary citizens, examining how tax… OL16141815W
Seeing the first Australians Seeing the first Australians Tamsin Donaldson,Ian Donaldson First sight / Ian Donaldson & Tamsin Donaldson -- The first European depictions / Bernard Smith -- Reactions on Cook's voyage / Glyndwr Williams -- Savage sportsmen / James Urry -- The Darwinian pers… OL17821710W
Aphrodite's island Aphrodite's island Anne Salmond Aphrodite's Island is a bold new account of the European discovery of Tahiti, the Pacific island of mythic status in Western imaginings about sexuality, the exotic, and the nobility or bestiality of … OL18637511W
The bombers and the bombed The bombers and the bombed R. J. Overy A history of the Allied bombing campaigns of World War II questions the morality of British and American attacks on occupied European cities while offering insight into the course of the civilian fro… OL19706494W
Louis XIV outside in Louis XIV outside in Tony Claydon,Charles-Édouard Levillain "Louis XIV -- the 'Sun King' -- casts a long shadow over the history of seventeenth-century Europe. Yet whilst he has been the subject of numerous works, much of the scholarship remains firmly rooted… OL22316422W
Society and deviance in communist Poland Society and deviance in communist Poland Jerzy Kwaśniewski 210 pages ; 23 cm OL5159750W
The View from Vesuvius The View from Vesuvius Nelson Moe "The vexed relationship between the two parts of Italy, often referred to as the Southern Question, has shaped that nation's political, social, and cultural life throughout the twentieth century. But… OL6208841W
From the "Terror of the World" to the "Sick Man of Europe From the "Terror of the World" to the "Sick Man of Europe Asl Crakman "From the "Terror of the World" to the "Sick Man of Europe" sheds new light on the hotly debated issue of Orientalism by looking at the European images of the Ottoman Empire and society over three ce… OL9621785W